{"id":44977,"date":"2017-09-27T09:41:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T09:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=44977"},"modified":"2017-09-27T09:41:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T09:41:15","slug":"worried-security-flaw-apples-new-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/worried-security-flaw-apples-new-macos.html","title":{"rendered":"How worried should you be about the security flaw in Apple\u2019s new macOS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">How worried should you be about the security flaw in Apple\u2019s new macOS?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">How worried should you be about the security flaw in Apple\u2019s new macOS?:-Apple has acknowledged a reported security flaw with its latest free macOS update, High Sierra, which was released for download Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">As outlined at Forbes, security researcher Patrick Wardle published evidence that programs not approved by Apple may be able to pick up passwords in a Mac&#8217;s \u201ckeychain\u201d \u2014 the place that stores passwords you&#8217;ve asked Apple to remember for you. There&#8217;s no evidence that anyone has exploited this flaw, but it is a bit of a bruise on the launch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">The problem can hit if you download software from places other than the Mac App Store \u2014 a practice that your Mac will repeatedly warn you against if you try to install third-party software. If you don&#8217;t download software that isn&#8217;t from the Mac App Store, you should be fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">In a statement, Apple addressed the report, saying that users should pay attention to the warnings they get from their computers. \u201cWe encourage users to download software only from trusted sources like the Mac App Store, and to pay careful attention to security dialogs that macOS presents,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Wardle told Forbes that he expects Apple will create a patch for the exploit, but Apple did not provide details on when or if that will happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Still, if you never go outside the App Store, there&#8217;s little reason to wait and dive into what High Sierra has to offer. As you should before any upgrade, please make sure you back up your files first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt\">Source:-https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2017\/09\/26\/how-worried-you-should-be-about-the-security-flaw-in-apples-new-macos<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/worried-security-flaw-apples-new-macos.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How worried should you be about the security flaw in Apple\u2019s new macOS? How worried should you be about the security flaw in Apple\u2019s new macOS?:-Apple has acknowledged a reported security flaw with its latest free macOS update, High Sierra, which was released for download Monday. 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